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About 20 minutes before a nearly finalized version of the 2024 Major League Soccer schedule was set to be distributed to club executives Sunday night, Vancouver Whitecaps president Axel Schuster received a message from the league office.
"Just a heads-up," he was told. "You have the game."
It was a possibility, Schuster knew, but until he had confirmation that Inter Miami was coming to Vancouver -- and with that, the assumption that Lionel Messi was, too -- he had refused to get his hopes up.